Convenience container devices and methods thereof

Abstract

A convenience container device is disclosed. The device has a food container selectively coupled to a lid assembly. The lid assembly includes a spoon at an end of a handle pivotally coupled to a trigger handle. The food container comprises one or more chambers, and the chambers include solid foods and fluid foods. The chambers communicate with one another so that the solid foods and the fluid foods are mixed. Single-handed manipulation of the trigger handle by a user displaces the spoon having a mixture of the solid and fluid foods along a predefined path to conveniently deliver the food mixture to the user. A method of using the convenience container device is disclosed. Furthermore, a convenience consumer device kit comprises one or more convenience container devices or one or more components of one or more convenience consumer devices, or combinations thereof.

1. A convenience container device, comprising in combination:
 a food container selectively coupled to a lid assembly; said lid assembly including a spoon at an end of a handle, an opposite end of said handle pivotally coupled to a trigger handle; 
 said food container having an outer wall and at least one food opening, wherein said food container includes: 
 one or more chambers located in an inner portion of said food container, a first chamber defined by at least one wall, said first chamber having at least one outlet, a second chamber defined by at least one wall, a third chamber defined by at least one wall and said third chamber having at least one outlet; 
 a tube having a first end and a second end; 
 an inner portion of said second chamber configured to receive a portion of said first end of said tube, and said tube in selective fluid communication with an inner portion of said third chamber, said third chamber configured to receive a portion of said second end of said tube; 
 an inner portion of said third chamber in selective communication with said at least one outlet of said first chamber 
 
       wherein, when a user selectively engages said trigger handle with a single hand to manipulate said spoon, said spoon is selectively displaced along a predefined path from an inner portion of said third chamber through said food opening and thereby conveniently delivers a food mixture of one or more food solids and one or more food fluids to said user. 
     
     
       2. The device of  claim 1  wherein said lid assembly further comprises a lid having a guide and at least one pivot on a portion of said lid, said guide configured to manipulate a portion of said handle along said predefined path. 
     
     
       3. The device of  claim 2  wherein, each of an opposite end of said handle and an end of said trigger handle couples to a portion of said at least one pivot. 
     
     
       4. The device of  claim 3  wherein a portion of said trigger handle couples to a second pivot on a portion of said lid. 
     
     
       5. The device of  claim 1  further comprising at least one solid food in an inner portion of said first chamber and at least one fluid food in an inner portion of said second chamber. 
     
     
       6. The device of  claim 1  further comprising a mixing region of an inner portion of said third chamber said mixing region configured to receive a portion of at least one solid food from an inner portion of said first chamber and a portion of at least one fluid food from an inner portion of said second chamber. 
     
     
       7. The device of  claim 6  wherein said at least one outlet of said first chamber is elevated to prevent displacement of said at least one fluid food from said mixing region into an inner portion of said first chamber thereby maintaining dryness of said at least one solid food located in an inner portion of said first chamber. 
     
     
       8. The device of  claim 1  further comprising a portion of an outer surface of said outer wall of said food container sized to receive a portion of said trigger handle. 
     
     
       9. The device of  claim 1  wherein a portion of said second end of said tube comprises at least a first bifurcated tube separated from at least a second bifurcated tube, said second end of said tube and said first end of said tube having a substantially Y shape. 
     
     
       10. The device of  claim 1  further comprising a portion of a surface of said outer wall of said food container having an indentation, said indentation shaped to receive a portion of an outer surface of a lid assembly of another convenience container device to facilitate efficient stacking of one or more convenience container devices. 
     
     
       11. The device of  claim 1  wherein an outer portion of said first chamber comprises a first bifurcated member and a second bifurcated member to facilitate unobstructed movement of a portion of said spoon and said handle between said first bifurcated member and said second bifurcated member of the first chamber along said predefined path. 
     
     
       12. The device of  claim 1  further comprising a fourth chamber having an inner channel defined by a portion of a bowl shaped outer wall of said food container, said inner channel in communication with an inner portion of said third chamber, said inner channel configured to receive said food mixture of one or more solid foods and one or more fluids from a mixing region of an inner portion of said third chamber. 
     
     
       13. The device of  claim 1  further comprising a separator member, a side of said separator member comprising an inner portion of said first chamber and an opposite side of said separator member comprising an inner portion of said second chamber. 
     
     
       14. The device of  claim 1  further comprising a portion of one or more sealant assemblies coupled to a portion of said at least one outlet of said first chamber to hygienically secure one or more solid foods in an inner portion of said first chamber, each of said one or more sealant assemblies having at least one tab configured to selectively decouple a portion of said one or more sealant assemblies from a portion of said at least one outlet of said first chamber. 
     
     
       15. The device of  claim 14  wherein a portion of said one or more sealant assemblies is selectively coupled to a portion of said second end of said tube to hygienically secure one or more fluid foods in an inner portion of said second chamber, said at least one tab configured to selectively decouple a portion of said one or more sealant assemblies from a portion of said second end of said tube. 
     
     
       16. A method of dispensing a mixture of solid foods and fluid foods comprising the steps of:
 providing a convenience container device having one or more sealant assemblies, said convenience container device including a food container selectively coupled to a lid assembly, said lid assembly including a spoon at an end of a handle, an opposite end of said handle pivotally coupled to a trigger handle, said food container having an outer wall and at least one food opening; 
 removing a portion of said at least one sealant assemblies from a portion of at least one outlet of a first chamber of said food container to expose one or more food solids located in an inner portion of said first chamber; 
 removing a portion of said at least one sealant assemblies from a portion of a second end of a tube having a first end in selective fluid communication with one or more fluid foods located in an inner portion of a second chamber to expose said one or more fluid foods; 
 rotating said convenience container device to facilitate selective dispensing of a portion of said one or more food solids from an inner portion of said first chamber through said at least one outlet of said first chamber into an inner portion of a third chamber; 
 rotating back said convenience container device to manipulate said one or more solid foods into a mixing region of said third chamber, wherein at least a portion of said spoon is configured to receive a portion of said one or more solid foods; 
 selectively forcing a portion of said one or more fluid foods from an inner portion of said second chamber through said first end of said tube and out of said second end of said tube into an inner portion of said third chamber to mix with a portion said one or more food solids in said mixing region of said third chamber, a portion of said spoon configured to receive a food mixture of said one or more solid foods and said one or more fluid foods; and 
 selectively engaging said trigger handle with a user's single hand to displace said spoon along a pre-determined path from said mixing region and through said food opening to feed said user with a portion of said food mixture. 
 
     
     
       17. The method of  claim 16  further comprising the steps of:
 selectively disengaging said trigger handle, said spoon retracing a portion of said pre-determined path back through said food opening and partially back into an inner portion of said third chamber; 
 reloading said spoon with a portion of said food mixture located between said mixing region and an inner portion of a fourth chamber in communication with an inner portion of said third chamber; and 
 selectively re-engaging said trigger handle with said user's single hand to re-feed said user with another portion of said food mixture. 
 
     
     
       18. The method of  claim 17  further comprising the step of:
 disengaging said trigger handle to retract said spoon into said mixing region of said third chamber. 
 
     
     
       19. A convenience container device kit comprising, in combination:
 at least two convenience container devices wherein each of said convenience container devices is configured to single handedly dispense a mixture of one or more solid foods and one or more fluid foods along a predefined path, each of said at least two convenience container devices including: 
 a food container selectively coupled to a lid assembly; said lid assembly including a spoon at an end of a handle, an opposite end of said handle pivotally coupled to a trigger handle; 
 said food container having an outer wall and at least one food opening, wherein said food container includes: 
 one or more chambers located in an inner portion of said food container, a first chamber defined by at least one wall and said first chamber having at least one outlet, a second chamber defined by at least one wall and, a third chamber defined by at least one wall, said third chamber having at least one outlet; 
 a tube having a first end and a second end; 
 an inner portion of said second chamber configured to receive a portion of said first end of said tube, and said tube in selective fluid communication with an inner portion of said third chamber, said inner portion of said third chamber configured to receive a portion of said second end of said tube; 
 an inner portion of said third chamber in selective communication with said at least one outlet of said first chamber; 
 a portion of a surface of said outer wall of each food container of said convenience consumer devices having an indentation, said indentation shaped to receive a portion of an outer surface of a lid assembly of another convenience container device; 
 at least one of said at least two convenience container devices stacked on another convenience container device; and 
 a packaging material proximate to a portion of an outer surface of said at least two convenience container devices to protect said convenience container devices during transportation. 
 
     
     
       20. The kit of  claim 19  wherein said packaging material comprises at least one heat shrinkable plastic to restrain said at least two convenience devices.